Devon Walker-Figueroa is the author of Philomath (Milkweed Editions, 2021), a 2020 National Poetry Series Competition selection, winner of the 2022 Levis Reading Prize, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize for a best first book in any genre. A 2022–2023 Amy Lowell Traveling Scholar, her work has appeared in The Nation, Poetry, the American Poetry Review, and elsewhere.  

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